December Links

I am in this anthology with friends Avis Hickman-Gibb, Bill West and Sarah Hilary.
http://www.short-humour.org.uk/peopleoffewwords/People_Of_Few_Words.pdf

http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html
http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html
http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/pitstop.htm http://staticmovement.com/chaoslight.htm
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-santa-suit/#comment-4824
http://www.bigtoereview.com/id78.html
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue318/magical_thinking.html
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/

The Canary Murder Case was written for the guidelines and it was an interesting challenge.
Suspicion was adapted to this challenge but written some time ago.
Pit Stop is a nice little humourous Sci Fi Christmas treat.
Chaos and Light - family - it's what Christmas is about ;)
The Santa Suit is up at Micro Horror. What's it got in its pocketses?
A Matter of Taste is at Big Toe Review. Christmas is a time of traditions.
Magical Thinking examines thought itself and even scepticism, in a rather sceptical way.
Song of the Winter Earth it's short.

Leonard Cohen at last

I've been a fan for nearly 40 years and at last got to see Leonard Cohen at the MEN Arena in Manchester on Sunday evening. The standing ovations that we gave him were nothing. He gave himself totally to every moment of performance and every nuance of every song and he gave generous mention to every one of his team of musicians, technicians and roadies. Did I say performance? I don't think it was a performance as such - it was Leonard Cohen as honest and human as he has always been which is why he has drawn so many to him, young and old over these many years.

Hello to Sharon and Yiar (hope I spelt that correctly) who'd come all the way from Israel and with whom we shared a taxi and now our memories too.

Micro Horror Winner again

The Final Chapter by Oonah V Joslin is a superb little flash of one of millions of possible far-distant futures, and we were captivated by the lush descriptions of the bio-technological creatures crawling up from the depths. It tasted very much of classic sci-fi novels with their technological marvels rising up over the sunken, destroyed wreckage of human civilisation in a desolate, lonely and dystopian future of the kind that normal people dread to think about as a possible reality.

Sarah Clarke

Check out the story and what the prize will be - links to Sarah Clarke's art work etc here

http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/microhorror/the-2008-story-contest-winners-are-here/#more-1295

I could not be more delighted.

November News

4 of my Stories are to appear in the Every Day Fiction Anthology:
The Heron, Synergy, Conscious Decision and Resolution.

A Wild Night is to appear in the Print Issue of Short Story Library.

Congratulations to John Ritchie, Avis Hickman-Gibb, Sarah Hilary, Tania Hersheman, Nick Ozment and Jennifer Whalmsley, who also got in to one or the other and to the many I have no room to mention here.

November Links

First of all, don't forget to visit http://www.everydaypoets.com/ which is now offering a poem a day. A great variety of poems to move and entertain you. Leave our authors a comment and vote for your favourite poems.

And here are some offerings from me.
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue315/time_travelling.html
http://shortstory.us.com/2008/11/dance-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comment-8796
http://www.everydayfiction.com/sleight-of-hand-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comment-9906
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/page/5/
http://ink-sweat-and-tears.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/11/6/3964885.html
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-final-chapter/
http://staticmovement.com/orionandthedogs.htm
http://staticmovement.com/late.htm
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue312/grow_trees.html
http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinoonahv.htm
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/?s=All+Hallow%27s+Eve

Time Travelling is a fictional memoir - a kind of pastiche of jouneys undertaken throughout England and Wales over the past 30 years, the amusing, the frustrating, the disappointing. The passage of time and change in attitudes as seen through the lens of that interfcae with reality we euphemistically call leisure. The only true way to relax, I have always found, is to stay at home.
My great friend, Jennifer Whalmsley has her Flash Death by Numbers in the same issue - so check it out. And Pamela from Shine is in there too. Very good Pam.
Dance is based on the ballet Dracula as created by Denis Malenkine for The NBT. The poster is therefore real and resides in my bedroom. This ballet will never be forgotten by anyone who was lucky enough to see it.
Sleight of Hand at EDF htis month is a spooky tlae with Edwardian charm which I really enjoyed writing :)
My response to the economic MESS is Going with the Flow at The Pygmy Giant
People sometimes say they don't understand those poems that don't rhyme and have no rhythm and how can they be poems? Here is an ex-planation - of sorts. You Asked Me - right, Jennifer? :)
A final Creature Feature in Micro Horror
Two stories in Static Movement with similar theme.
A funny story with a serious point in BwS.
3 poems in Shine.
And I took the Halloween slot in Pygmy Giant! ;)

Every Day Poets

Will launch on Nov 1st at
http://www.everydaypoets.com/

Submit A Poem!
"A new poem every day"

We need Xmas Poems too :)

October Links

Having won the Micro Horror Trophy last year, I decided to set myself the challenge of entering 6 stories for the competition this year ranging in length thus: 666, 555, 444, 333, 222, 111 words. I did it! Quite a marathon! Links to follow but some are up already - go and see them.
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/category/author/oonah-v-joslin/
The Titles are:
End Game (not for the contest but very halloween)
Victim
Sole Survivor
Sleep Tight (My personal favourite)
Oh for a friendly Face
Duplicitous Creatures
Name of the Beast (topical)
GENESTARE (anagram title)
Titration of the Spirit ( a drabble of metaphisical proportions)

You might like to know more about Micro Horror's editor, Nathan Rosen, who is not horrible at all but somewhat human...sorry Black Dog Nate - it had to be said :) Here's the link to an interview with him:
http://shortstory.us.com/2008/10/interview-with-editor-microhorror/

A Horror of Horrors is one of my longer stories and it is now up at Demon Minds my first time in that publication. http://www.demonminds.com/tales/a_horror_of_horrors.html

You Must Remember This is at Every Day Fiction this month and it's one of my favourites. It made me laugh writing it and it makes me laugh reading it. Unapologetically very silly indeed :)
http://www.everydayfiction.com/you-must-remember-this-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comments

The Book is at http://www.joyfulonline.net/fiction.htm
My nephew Robert will perhaps recognise that this story is for him.

The Poem in Shine is untitled but you'll not need a title for this one. http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinov.htm

Halloween is a tongue in cheek ghost story.
http://staticmovement.com/ovj.htm
Look out for Avis, Fionnula, Mark Dalligan and Sarah Ann Watts too - Well done, Writewords buddies.

A Brief Encounter is up for your entertainment. I hope it amuses you. http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/abriefencounter.htm

End Game http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/end-game/ see if you can guess what John is up to.

Here's one I forgot to post: The Magic Hour
http://thepygmygiant.blogspot.com/search?q=Oonah+V+Joslin